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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Remove looping /QopenSys link

The symbolic link /QopenSys/QopenSys points to itself and should be elimiated, because a process reading through the directory will eventually find himself being pointed to /QOpenSys over and over again. Use Case: WINDIRSTAT reading throught the IFS.
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Open Source and PASE 3 Delivered

Include non externally described files info in the SYSPARTITIONSTAT sql view

I'm using the qsy2.syspartitionstat function to analyze physical files info, like sizing, number of members, info change dates, and others. I find it really easy to use and has a great functionality. But I was surprised that it doesn't consider th...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

DLYJOB add handling for controlled end request

When a controlled job end is requested, such as after an ENDJOB *CNTRLD or ENDSBS *CNTRLD, it would be nice if DLYJOB could be interrupted to permit graceful shutdown of a process. Use Case: It would be nice to add some option to DLYJOB where a co...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

Create a feature to effectively export/import preferences

The existing export/import of preferences in Eclipse is inadequate for Rational Developer for Power Systems Software features. Currently with the product, when you import in a PRF file, you get little to no customizations duplicated from the exist...
about 13 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 9 Delivered

add restart with dump feature from PowerVC

It is possible to start and stop LPARs from PowerVC. But this feature allows only "graceful" shutdown of system. It doesn't allow both hard shutdown/reboot or shutdown with dump.
over 4 years ago in PowerVC 2 Delivered

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC) : Show "system storage" in GB or TB.

DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk spaces have grown so large that reporting in MB is no longer feasable. DSPSYSSTS ASTLVL(*BASIC)Disk space: System storage (in 1,000,000 bytes) . . . . . . . . . . : +++++++ System storage used . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Core OS 2 Delivered

ACS add plugin for "<help><about>" to get version information

the acsbundle.jar file is non-specific for version information. there should be a way to show the version information to a terminal window. Use Case: from IBM i command line, where no GUI exists, or PC/MAC/LINUX command line need to be able to get...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 5 Delivered

commit & rollback in Toolbox ribbon in Run SQL script

It would be great if Run Sql Script could have two new buttons - "commit" and "rollback" in Toolbox ribbon. if these two could be available only when applicable -> if isolation level in opened JDBC connection = '*NONE' THEN "greyed out" else "a...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / IBM i Access Family 6 Delivered

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF enhancement request

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF currently accepts library and object as parameters and also if object name is not specified, it defaults to "ALL" for the library. We would like to request for an enhancement where this UDTF can accept a list of objects as par...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Allow Refactor Rename to wrap lines when the new length is longer than the record length

When using the Refactor>Rename on ILE RPG, it is possible for the length of the line to exceed the record length of the original line. In this case RDi should break the line at an appropriate place and wrap it onto a new line. It would be ideal...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / RDi (Rational Developer for i) 6 Delivered